Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:50:20 -0800, Max Erickson wrote: > > >>>j is a built-in object used to make complex numbers. Or at least it >>>was, until you rebound it to the current element from myarray. That's bad >>>practice, but since using complex numbers is rather unusual, one you will >>>probably get away with. >> >>Is it? > > > [snip example] > > Well well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. You learn something new everyday. > > Okay, I was wrong. There is no conflict between using j as a name and the > built-in j-as-syntax-for-complex-numbers, except for any potential > conflict in the programmers head. > > That makes me feel a lot less guilty about all the times I wrote for j in > range loops :-) > > Yup, the "j" notation is recognised by the lexer, there's no built-in object.
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